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pay offices

pay offices is the plural of pay office.

Meaning of pay office

Noun

pay office (plural pay offices)

  1. The office or department in charge of payments to troops, employees, etc.
    • Not adverting to what I have just observed, I cannot help conceiving that gentlemen mislead themselves, by assimilating the navy pay office, in a great degree, to the army pay office, and supposing that, in all respects, the one has been regulated, or can be regulated, by the principles of the...1805, Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates - Volume 5, page 262

Questions about pay offices

What is pay offices the plural of?
Pay offices is the plural of pay office.

Words near pay offices in the dictionary

  1. pay nature's debt
  2. pay no mind
  3. pay off
  4. pay off old scores
  5. pay office
  6. pay offices
  7. pay one's addresses
  8. pay one's debt to society
  9. pay one's dues
  10. pay one's last respects
  11. pay one's own freight

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